Training Europe's Financial Supervisors
Modulos at the EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy in Florence
Training Europe's Financial Supervisors on AI Governance
CASE STUDY
Tags: EU-SDFA · Financial Supervision · AI Governance
Problem
The EU's financial supervisory authorities face a new category of risk they weren't built to assess. AI systems, and increasingly autonomous AI agents, are entering financial services faster than supervisory frameworks can adapt. Traditional model risk management was designed for logistic regression, not for systems that hallucinate, act autonomously, and update without notice. The supervisors responsible for financial stability across Europe needed to understand not just what AI risk looks like in theory, but how to actually audit and supervise it in practice.
Florence · March 2026 — EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy
Kevin Schawinski leading a session for supervisors from 27 EU member states at the Florence School of Banking & Finance, European University Institute.
| 27 | 44 | 3,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| EU Member States | National Competent Authorities | Supervisors Trained |
Solution
In March 2026, Modulos CEO Kevin Schawinski led two sessions at the EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy (EU-SDFA) in Florence, the EU's flagship training programme for financial supervisors. The EU-SDFA is organized by the Florence School of Banking & Finance at the European University Institute, in cooperation with the European Commission, EBA, ESMA, and EIOPA. Kevin's sessions covered the practical reality of governing AI systems in finance: risk taxonomies for traditional ML, generative AI, and agentic AI; quantitative risk assessment replacing qualitative RAG matrices; fairness metrics and the mathematical impossibility results that constrain them; stress testing for AI-specific failure modes; and what operational governance actually looks like versus performative compliance.
The fact that Europe's financial supervisors are turning to practitioners who build governance infrastructure, not just academics or regulators, tells you something about where the conversation has moved. Compliance frameworks need to work in production, not just on paper. That's what we showed them.
— Kevin Schawinski, CEO & Co-Founder, Modulos
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